Scientists at Sapporo Medical University may have just given beer drinkers something to cheer about. Their research, funded by Sapporo Breweries, showed that drinking beer can protect you from winter sniffles and some ailments commonly found in children.
But before you start chugging beer the whole day or turning young children to alcohol (and get arrested for it), what researchers discovered is that a chemical compound called humulone, found in hops, the plant that gives beer its better taste, is an effective guard against severe forms of pneumonia and bronchitis in young people. They are talking specifically about the respiratory syncytial (RS) virus, something that causes pneumonia and breathing difficulties for infants and toddlers, but unfortunately has no vaccine available. Not only young ones are affected, but also adults who exhibit cold-like symptoms during winter.
According to Jun Fuchimoto, a researcher involved in the study, humulone is found in very small quantities in beer that a person would have to drink 30 cans for it to have any virus-fighting effect. And since we think they don?t want everyone to become alcoholics just to escape pneumonia, they are studying how to apply humulone to food and non-alcoholic products. Masking that bitter taste will also be a challenge for the researchers.
[ via News AU ]
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